{"id":36599,"date":"2021-09-08T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/08\/deeply-rooted-tradition-one-mans-long-fight-to-end-dowries-in-india"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:00:29","slug":"deeply-rooted-tradition-one-mans-long-fight-to-end-illegal-dowries-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36599","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deeply rooted tradition\u2019: one man\u2019s long fight to end illegal dowries in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 years campaigning, Satya Naresh believes it\u2019s time for government action to stop the custom that causes a woman to die every hour through murder or suicide<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Satya Naresh has been trying to persuade India\u2019s men to stop a wedding custom that he sees as one of the country\u2019s worst social evils.<\/p>\n<p>He wants men to declare: \u201cI don\u2019t want dowry\u201d. The line is the <a href=\"https:\/\/idontwantdowry.com\/\">name of the website<\/a> he set up in 2006 as part of his campaign. Naresh wants Indian men not to expect the money, motorbike, sofa, TV, iPhone, gold jewellery or fridge that a future wife is expected to come with.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/08\/deeply-rooted-tradition-one-mans-long-fight-to-end-dowries-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 years campaigning, Satya Naresh believes it\u2019s time for government action to stop the custom that causes a woman to die every hour through murder or suicideFor more than a decade, Satya Naresh has been trying to persuade India\u2019s men to stop a w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[646,59,62,1203,86,76,958,552,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-inequality","category-law","category-marriage","category-poverty","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36600,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions\/36600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}